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Advogato blog for ciroen-usmod_virguleTue, 3 Mar 2015 20:27:09 GMTMon, 14 Jan 2002 21:47:33 GMT14 Jan 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=10
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=10A quick update, to remind myself where I am:
<ul>
<li>worked for 8 months at the University of Michigan
(<strong>loved</strong> it)
<li>in the meantime, Innominate evaporated (Doh!)
<li>moved back to Italy (still feels nice)
<li>rented an <a
href="http://www.baciottero.org/casina/">apartment</a>
downtown Perugia
<li>moved in with my girlfriend (<strong>loved</strong> it)
<li>got PhD (it was about time!)
<li>...now moving to <a
href="http://www.riken.go.jp">Tokyo</a>
real soon!
</ul>
Confusing uh? ;-)Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:16:42 GMT22 Apr 2001http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=9
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=9I won't try to summarize all the things that have happened
since last time I updated this diary! Most of them have been
good though, so I won't complain. :-) I'll refer my
italian-speaking friends to <a
href="http://persone.softwarelibero.org/person/ciro/">this
diary</a>.
<p>
Overall, I'm having a great time at the <a
href="http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/">U of M</a>.
I'm just back from <a
href="http://www.catamaranresort.com/">San
Diego</a>,<br>where
I served in a <a href="http://www.itr.nsf.gov/" >review panel
on Information Technology Research</a>.<br>A new and
<em>extremely</em>
interesting experience.
Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:32:35 GMT18 Feb 2001http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=8
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=8You can't sleep at night and decide to fly to
Italy right away,<br>
to appear in front of your girlfriend the moment she comes
out of
the
room where she has just defended her thesis. :)<br>
I feel alive!<br>
<p> <p> I've landed in Detroit a couple of hours ago.<br>
The warmth of Rome, this morning, is definitely far away. Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:25:40 GMT9 Feb 2001http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=7
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=7Long time I haven't updated this diary! I spent one busy
month in Italy,<br>but luckily had time for my girlfriend,
my family and
my niece (she now calls me
"<em>chicco</em>").<br>
<p> I just moved to <A HREF="http://www.annarbor.org/">Ann
Arbor</a>
and have started my research work at the <A
HREF="http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/">U of M</a>.<br>
<p> I rented a nice apartment nearby the campus area. So I'll
be able
to do away with cars - I hate to drive.<br>
I'm now in the progress of bootstrapping my life here:
phone,
DSL access, bank weirdness, university paperwork,
stuff in the fridge...<br>
<p> And, well, life is strange: when I was in Italy I worked for
Linuxcare.<br>Now that I live in Michigan, I ended up
working for <A
HREF="http://www.innominate.com/">Innominate AG</a>, which
is based in Germany.<br>Somehow, I'm bound to work as
a "<em>real remote remotee</em>". ;-)<br>
I hope things will work out nicely with this new job - I'll
be playing with embedded Linux projects, which sounds good
enough to me!
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:52:52 GMT22 Dec 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=6
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=6Back to Italy. Girlfriend, warm sun, pizza... is there
anything else a man could possibly want? ;)<br>
Now if I only had my luggage... :/
<p> <p> Out to lunch with Daniela, <a
href="/person/joke/">joke</a>,
<a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/eugy/" >eugy</a>!
<p> ...plus some 100% european <A
HREF="http://baciottero.org/pics/coffee.jpg">dessert and
coffee</a> ;)Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:48:49 GMT19 Dec 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=5
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=5Well, to convey the idea of how I'm doing it will suffice
to take a look at <A
HREF="http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Ann_Arbor_MI_US_c.html">this</a>
and <A
HREF="http://www.baciottero.org/neve.jpg">this</a>.<BR>
Do you have any idea of what it means to somebody who grew
up in
<A
HREF="http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Perugia_IY_c.html">Italy</a>?!
;)
<p> Nonetheless I survived, and in two days I'll be back in my
warm
home country,<br>ready to enjoy the Christmas vacations
with my girlfriend Daniela and our friends. Happiness!
<p> What else? I'm waiting for my <A
HREF="http://www.umich.edu/~icenter/intlstudents/legalinfo/j1.html">J-1
visa</a>. I also took a look at my future home here in
<em>freezeland</em>. It's very nice!
<p> And I wrote an event-driven engine to simulate the
dynamics of granular assemblies.
Fri, 1 Dec 2000 04:48:03 GMT1 Dec 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=4
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=4I love to work here! :)
<p> Spent most of the day digging into data sets. Attented a
couple of good talks.<br>
I also created a few beautiful images using IBM's
<A
HREF="http://www.opendx.org/">OpenDX</a> software.<br>
I feel a bit guilty because this is the first non-GPLd
program I use since months...
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:55:27 GMT25 Nov 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=3
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=3This morning I woke up in <A
HREF="http://www.annarbor.org/">Ann Arbor</a>.
Which is good, since it means that I managed to survive the
pre-departure frenzy!<br>
I'll be working <A
HREF="http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu">here</a> for one
month, under the guidance of <A
HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~nori/">Franco
Nori</a>.
<p> <p> <p> <p> Yesterday I took a few pictures from the plane.
They
look
nice, especially one shot of <A
HREF="http://www.baciottero.org/nyc.jpg">Manhattan at
sunset</a>, taken
during takeoff from Newark.
<p> <p> <p> <p> Since I'm hungry (4pm!) I'll go eat something at
my
favourite <A
HREF="http://www.annarbormenu.com/chinagate.htm">chinese
restaurant</a> in town. Slurp!Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:07:14 GMT16 Nov 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=2
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=2Came back from Padua. Went to Rome, attended the <A
HREF="http://www.linuxmeeting.org/">LiMe</a>, didn't quite
like it, came back. Went to Padua, <em>long</em> meeting,
came back. One more trip to Padua, then I'll be ready to
leave for Ann Arbor - hopefully!
<P>
I played with the <A
HREF="http://www.mpi-forum.org/">MPI</a> support of <A
HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/scientific.html">ScientificPython</a>,
on my mini-Beowulf (8 CPUs). I added support for
<A HREF="http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam/">LAM</a> and
fixed a few bugs. As a result, release <A
HREF="ftp://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/pub/ScientificPython/ScientificPython-2.1.5.tar.gz">2.1.5</a>
of ScientificPython
is now out.
<P>
I developed preliminary <A
HREF="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> bindings
for the <A HREF="http://www.virgo.infn.it/">VIRGO</a> <A
HREF="http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/virgo/FrameL/">Frame
Library</a>. I'd like <A
HREF="http://www.swig.org/">SWIG</a> to allow for better
control over shadow classes generation.
Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:09:37 GMT7 Nov 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=1
http://www.advogato.org/person/ciro/diary.html?start=1<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">Linuxcare Inc.</a> is
shutting down its European operations with immediate effect.
This includes <A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.it/">Linuxcare
Italia</a> (former <A
HREF="http://www.prosa.it/">PROSA</a>) whose closing
procedured have already started. We're receiving
<em>lots</em> of offers, so I'm positive about our future as
a group.